The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You) How Boris Fucks With Their Fans -- In A Good Way Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles Top 20 Worst Bands of All ... More >>
The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You) How Boris Fucks With Their Fans -- In A Good Way Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles Top 20 Worst Bands of All ... More >>
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Also, The Melvins, Graf Orlock, Dudamel/Mahler 9th, Lissie and others
via origami vinyl's flickrneil schield of origami vinyl Independent Echo Park record store Origami Vinyl carries a strong collection of local music as well as new releases and luxurious reissues. Proprietor Neil Schield told us about their most recent top ten local sellers--as well as a loca ... More >>
Steve GullickFoalsFoals' arty fusion of indie-rock and dance music took two albums to coalesce, but it did on Total Life Forever, which came out in May on Sub Pop. The album earned the Oxford, U.K., quintet a nomination for Britain's Mercury Prize. What it's earning them on their current 22- ... More >>
Corey NickolsFilterIt's been 15 years since Filter scored its big hit with "Hey Man, Nice Shot," and a year and half since Richard Patrick passed that signpost of career middle age by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. He must've thought there was still some rockin' to do -- or he heard ... More >>
Piper FergusonThe Swell SeasonBoy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>
Unveiling the mystery of Dee Dee and the Dum Dum Girls
Unveiling the mystery of Dee Dee and the Dum Dum Girls
Unveiling the mystery of Dee Dee and the Dum Dum Girls
Our friends at Videothing just debuted a short of the first LA club performance by Dum Dum Girls, whose debut album comes out on Sub Pop in a few months. You should watch it to see what all the hoo-ha is about. The band first starting appearing on the radar last summer, though astute scenesters ... More >>
In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>
Long Beach teens sign to Sub Pop
In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>
Hot off the press. Seattle mega-indie Sub Pop has just announced the signing of Long Beach's Avi Buffalo, which might be our favorite band that still has a member in high school. A 7-inch, "What's In It For" b/w "Jessica," is scheduled for release on December 8 (pre-order here), BUT, as an email fro ... More >>
East Hollywood-based metal imprint Southern Lord is one of the most respected independent record labels of the '00s, a solid, consistently-surprising label started by two men in the drone metal band Sunn 0))) -- Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley. Gisele VienneSunn 0)) West Coast Sound rec ... More >>
The new No Age EP, called 'Losing Feeling,' is four songs long, all recorded in Los Angeles, and is supposedly streaming. However, so far we've yet to be able to listen to it, and we're totally fresh on our Firefox updates. Apparently we're not alone. Try to stream it yourself here. Any ... More >>
Leslie & the Badgers, Scout Niblett, Theresa Andersson, Meat Puppets and others
Timothy NorrisThe pit at the Mojave Tent on Sunday; keep in mind it hit 100 degrees that day. Sunday was a good day for the noiseniks. Coachella-goers who arrived early enough were greeted by boxes of complementary earplugs as they piled through the gate -- vital accessories for a My Bloody Valent ... More >>
If you're going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade's *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passi ... More >>
By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>
No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more
You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>
Mudhoney with Japanese Motors and Model/Actress @ El Rey Theatre November 14th, 2008 By Rita Neyter Mudhoney on stage. Photo by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. "Mudhoney! HOLY SHIT!" shouted the bassist/vocalist of L.A.-based band Model/Actress. Holy shit, indeed. It's kind of ... More >>
Raven Sings the Blues has an MP3 of the pretty, noisy, pretty/noisy new No Age track. The b-side of their new "Teen Creeps" 7" on Sub Pop is called "Intimate Descriptions, and you can find it here. (via gorillavsbear.) We can't be any clearer than this: GAVIN ROSSDALE HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH ... More >>
Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more
From Sugar Hill to the Wild Pitch/4th & Broadway/Rap-A-Lot years to Fondle 'Em and Rawkus, hip-hop was founded on a bedrock of great labels that you could generally trust whatever they released to be quality, save for the the 4th and Broadway-signed Stereo MC's (though we can all admit to liki ... More >>
Can a flutist be far behind?
Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with its magic. One such thing is the new video for LA-based Daedelus's new "Make It So." From his forthcoming Love To Make Music To, which comes out on Ni ... More >>
Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century
Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting less ink: This week the Beachwood Sparks announced that they'd be reuniting this summer as part of Sub Pop Records' 20th anniversary party in Seatt ... More >>
A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the River Ganges, even going as far to sponsor the bash, which wasn't really as bad as it was boring. A bunch of people sitting in bleachers trying t ... More >>
The latest twee-pop purveyors from the land down under
By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, where Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, is some sort of minor legend. You know, Bruce Pavitt, the dude with the vision to uncover a few of the gr ... More >>
The Fuck Yeah Fest merges underground music, comedy and art to create a younger, freakier kind of party
Shins take a trip to the dark side of the moon
Shins take a trip to the dark side of the moon
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ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
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